My name is bridget Tad and I love the Internet. And the fun fact about me is, at any time anyone brings up anything about the Internet or technology, my first inclination is to tell them about how a woman whose story they might not know, is actually the reason we have that thing. Like did you know that a woman engineer is basically the reason we have cellphones and tablets, but that she was fired from IBM and the fifties for being trans and her story was almost overlooked because
of it. Or what about those born apes you might have been seeing on the social media feeds of celebrities like Jimmy Fallen, Paris Hilton, and witneth Aaltrow? Did you know they were actually designed by a woman of color who kind of got screwed out of the credit. Or what about the fact that a black woman who worked at the social media platform Pinterest developed one of the first ever policies to keep medical misinformation off social media, way before COVID was ever a thing, but that she
was actually punished for it. Y'all, I cannot stop talking about the ways that women, black folks, queer folks, trans folks, and other tradition marginalized people are out here shaping what it means to be on the Internet and technology, even if our stories are not always told. I started the podcast There Are No Girls on the Internet, so that our experiences online would never go overlooked and our stories
would never go untold. On There Are No Girls on the Internet, we talk about the past, present, and future of our experiences online. So listen to There Are No Girls on the Internet, with new episodes starting on March first, on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.